Motivational Quotes

Truth

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Truth

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

10.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

11.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

13.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

14.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

16.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

17.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

18.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

21.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

25.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

32.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

33.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

35.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

40.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.